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Moral relativism is rife (.) But it is the sheer scale of the project that finally defeats Chandra. Everyone is on the make in Mumbai, and as the book develops, the web linking police and politicians with criminals and gangsters becomes ever more complex and convincing. "Chandra is a subtle, undemonstrative writer, and the novel has many virtues, not least its depiction of the city's endemic corruption.Beim Lesen stellt sich oft jener Überdruss, jenes Mattsein ein, welche man nach einem langen und anstrengenden Tag des Hetzens und Hechelns in Bombay verspürt." - Ilija Trojanow, Neue Zürcher Zeitung "Chandra hat sich dafür entschieden, die Dichte des Lebens in Bombay durch Überfülle zu vermitteln (.) Chandras Strategie geht zumindest in einer Hinsicht zur Gänze auf.(.) Sacred Games quakes with seismic historical shocks, as if Chandra were intent on blasting open India's historically amnesiac present, a time when India (or at least its media and its political class) is intoxicated by its glorious future." - Carl Bromley, The Nation "Like a sculptor making small, delicate chips in stone, Chandra moves things along at a measured pace, building his characters, finding glorious little details in the minutiae of everyday Bombay life, yet remaining sharply focused on the main thrust of his detective story.He's having fun and that's contagious, but too often the audience can feel on the wrong side of an in-joke." - Susan Salter Reynolds, The Los Angeles Times Reading Sacred Games is a bit like watching an extremely talented jazz musician improvise. Still, there are a few too many balls in the air.

(.) Chandra's genius is in the way he trusts his readers.

(.) It is not until about halfway through the novel that we firmly hold all the cards we will need to play the game he has set in motion, and even then, Chandra is merciless with our memories.

"One of the coolest things about Sacred Games is the crash course it offers in 21st century Indian society and especially the life of Mumbai.

It didn't, however, quite carry me all the way." - Kevin Rushby, The Guardian (.) Chandra works hard to keep the reader on board: after all, this is a mixed-up, muddled-up India where illiterate farmers chat on mobile phones and respectable people kill their daughters for marrying out of caste.

"One thing Chandra does superbly well is give a sense of the changes and the continuities of modern India.

Yet these unruly parts ultimately fit together into a chaotic and luminous whole, one that mirrors Chandra's capacious vision of his homeland." - Jennifer Reese, Entertainment Weekly (.) There's a superabundance of tumultuous narrative, acres of magnificent prose, and maybe a dozen too many characters.

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"This is a ravishing, overexuberant stab at the Great Indian Novel, an extraordinary work of fiction that will reward you in full for your investment of time, though not without occasionally testing your patience.

(.) Sacred Games is monstrously entertaining, conjuring images of a literary duet between John Irving and Vikram Seth with a dollop of Mario Puzo thrown in for good measure." - Erik Spanberg, Christian Science Monitor It is, more than anything else, literary magic.

" Sacred Games, Chandra's sweeping, sprawling, and jaw-dropping new novel.

No consensus, though most quite impressed (if also often overwhelmed)

Sacred Games was made into a mini-series in 2018ī+ : fairly thoroughly entertaining, but doesn't amount to quite enough.

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